People with Intrapersonal
Multiple Intelligence Enjoy Thinking

A person with the intrapersonal
multiple intelligence strength doesn’t mind spending time alone. She will
always find ways to entertain herself. You’ll find that she will voluntarily
pick up a magazine and begin reading, or she will doodle on an odd sheet of
paper. She is highly independent, steps to the beat of a different drummer,
seems to follow an inner voice, and pursues her own interests.

In fact, don’t be
surprised if one day her sense of adventure causes her to take off on a day
trip or go hiking through the woods and forget to tell you where she’s going.
If you have ever done this or have a child who tends to do this, your child is
displaying a dominant intrapersonal multiple intelligence. While she is naturally introverted, this does
not mean that she is lonely. Far from it, she is her own best friend.
Throughout her life, she will prefer her own company and a couple of close
friends. Other personal characteristics
include

Meditating

Strong-willed

Self-motivated

Philosophical

Reflective

To Build These Strengths, Have Your Child

Keeping a journal for the intrapersonal multiple
intelligent child is probably the best way to remember material. Enclosing
snippets of key information inside balloons, drawing boxes, and lightning bolts
will help her visualize and focus on material. If she is a true intrapersonal type girl, she will save these journals for years to come, and
never tire of flipping through them on a rainy day. Drawing pictures and using
color will help reinforce material.

In Order To Learn Difficult Material, Use these techniques...

In reality, the intrapersonal type is already primed
to self-improvement; however, if she is struggling with some material, it would
be a good idea to reason with her about the importance of the material. For
example, in history, discuss the struggles an individual general or inventor
may have endured to accomplish his or her dream. The child with intrapersonal
multiple intelligence should always read biographies of people like Nikola
Tesla, Amelia Earhart, and Jackie Robinson. Inspirational stories such as these
will do more to encourage your child than any dry, typical history book on the
market today.

To encourage her writing skills, her journals should
include multiple paragraph compositions on her ideas, opinions on the strengths
and weaknesses of her reading passages, and her dreams.